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When Yiddish is a Prop for Holocaust Revisionism

Posted on 24 July 2016 by Defending History

NEWS, VIEWS, QUIPS AND SHMIPS FROM SUMMER 2016

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Yiddish summer course again features American author Ellen Cassedy as lecturer on Holocaust topics; her 2012 book, part-funded by the Tides Foundation (a Soros beneficiary), was launched by the Lithuanian Embassy in Washington DC.

But will students be informed of critical reviews of the book (e.g. by Allan Nadler, Olga Zabludoff, Efraim Zuroff, Dovid Katz) or about the peaceful protest that awaited her at London University?

**Will organizers invite, for balance, Ruta Vanagaite and Efraim Zuroff to discuss their 2016 book (recently featured in Newsweek)?**

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Posted in "Jewish" Events as Cover?, A 21st Century Campaign Against Lithuanian Holocaust Survivors?, Bloomington-Borns Program Manipulated?, Double Games, Foreign Ministries: Holocaust Politics Abuse?, Lithuania, Litvak Affairs, News & Views, Opinion, Politics of Memory, Views of Prof. Sarunas Liekis | Tagged Bloomington + Vilnius, Borns Jewish Studies Program, Dov-Ber Kerler, Efraim Zuroff, Richard Maullin, Ruta Vanagaite, Sarunas Liekis, Vilnius Yiddish Summer Program, אידיש אין ווילנע, יידיש אין ווילנע | Comments Off on When Yiddish is a Prop for Holocaust Revisionism

Recent In Yiddish & On Yiddish . . .

Posted on 27 June 2014 by Defending History

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Dovid’s Yiddish, Litvak & Recent Publications (& Books)

WAS THE DEC. 2014 YIVO BANQUET REALLY ABOUT YIDDISH? (AS PDF).

HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR LEAVES FOR POSTERITY A RECORDING IN VILNA YIDDISH OF HIS 2015 LETTER TO THE HEAD OF YIVO

THE NEW YIDDISH TEACHING POSITIONS IN VILNIUS: Background; Chronology (reverse); Milan Chersonski; Daniel Galay (Leyvik House); Olegas Poliakovas; Regina Kopilevich. But who is the mystery donor?

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אויף יידיש:

די זיבעציק יאָריקע דעקלאַראַציע

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אַ ווירטועל יידיש מוזייעלע פון דער יידישער ווילנע

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צו דער זאָרגלאָזער דעקאָנסטרוקציע פון מאַקס וויינרייכן. און שוין ווייטער קונקל⸗מונקל אויפן אָפּגעשוואַכטן געביט פון יידיש; אַן ענטפער אויף צוויי אַרטיקלען וועגן יידיש אין באַוואוסטן אינטערנעט זשורנאַל „טאַבלעט“

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צו דער מעטאָדאָלאָגיע פון דער היסטאָרישער יידישער לינגוויסטיק

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ריטעם, און מלעיל און מלרע אין דער ווילנער העברעאישער פּאָעזיע אין ניינצעטן יאָרהונדערט

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In English:

Yiddish and Power (Palgrave MacMillan 2015)

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Litvish: An Atlas of Northeastern Yiddish (2014)

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Knaanic in the Medieval and Modern Scholarly Imagination

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Mystery of the Eight-Pointed Western Litvak (Zámeter) Symbol on Jewish Gravestones

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The Yiddish Names of Lithuanian Towns

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Index to Virtual Yiddish Mini Museum of Old Jewish Vilna

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